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August Golf Ball Sales Increase

Golf Datatech reported that golf ball sales at on- and off-course golf specialty shops increased 1.2% to $61.3 million in August, versus August 2000. Unit sales increased 0.5% to 2.3 million dozen. In the sporting goods channel, dollar sales of $10 million represented a 4% decline versus last year. Unite sales dropped 5% to 631,740 dozen. At mass merchants, dollar sales slipped 3.6% to $9.9 million despite increased unit sales of 871,400 dozen, up 3.3%.

NSGA Research Newsletter Thomas B. Doyle